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Jake Weber
Jake Weber (Jake T. Weber), English actor born in London, trained at Juilliard and the Moscow Art Theatre; best known as Joe DuBois on Medium (130 episodes, 2005-2011) and for Dawn of the Dead, Meet Joe Black, U-571; birth date disputed (1963 vs March 19, 1964).
Jakkrasin Atsavatanachai (จักราสินธุ์ อัศวธนะชัย)
Jakkrasin Atsavatanachai (จักราสินธุ์ อัศวธนะชัย), nicknamed Inn, Thai actor born 1997; debut The Wicked Game (2025), then Phra Ekathotsarot in The Last Duel and lead role Phob in the BL series The Edge of Horizon (2026).
Jaleel White
Jaleel White (born 1976, Culver City, California) is an American actor who played Steve Urkel on Family Matters (1989–1998) and voiced Sonic the Hedgehog in three 1990s cartoon series; later host of Flip Side and Totally '90s House.
Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil (born 1986) is a British actress, presenter, podcaster, and activist; T4 and BBC Radio 1 host, Tahani on The Good Place, Titania in She-Hulk, and founder of the I Weigh movement.
James and Oliver Phelps
James and Oliver Phelps, English identical twin actors born 1986 in Sutton Coldfield, played Fred and George Weasley respectively in all eight Harry Potter films, and later hosted the podcast Normal Not Normal and Food Network's Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking.
James Argent
James David Thomas Argent (born 1987), known as Arg, English TV personality and singer, original cast member of The Only Way Is Essex (2010-2018), wedding singer since 2019.
James Arness
James Arness (James King Aurness, 1923–2011), American actor, Marshal Matt Dillon on CBS's Gunsmoke 1955–1975, ~635 episodes over 20 seasons; WWII Anzio wounded, The Thing (1951), brother of Peter Graves.
James Ashcroft
James Ashcroft is a New Zealand writer, director, and actor (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi), former Taki Rua Productions head, whose thrillers Coming Home in the Dark (Sundance 2021) and The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) brought him Hollywood projects.
James Avery
James La Rue Avery (1945 or 1948-2013), American actor known as Uncle Phil (Philip Banks) on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (140+ episodes, NBC 1990-1996) and the voice of Shredder in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Shakespeare-trained stage actor, Navy veteran, died of open-heart surgery complications.
James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale (James Badgett Dale, born 1978, New York City) is an American actor, son of Anita Morris and Grover Dale, known for 24, The Pacific, Rubicon, The Departed, 13 Hours, Iron Man 3, and Hightown.
James Baskett
James Baskett (1904-1948), American actor and Amos 'n' Andy radio performer, played Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South and in 1948 became the first Black male actor to receive an Oscar, an honorary Academy Award.
James Beck
James Beck (Stanley James Carroll Beck, 1929-1973), English actor who played Cockney spiv Private Joe Walker in 60 episodes of BBC's Dad's Army (1968-1973) and Bert Jones in Romany Jones; died aged 44 of pancreatitis during series six.
James Benning (film director)
James Benning (born 1942, Milwaukee) is an American experimental filmmaker of structuralist, long-take landscape films, known for 11 x 14, Deseret, the California Trilogy, 13 Lakes, and The United States of America.
James Best
James Best (Jewel Franklin Guy, 1926–2015) was an American character actor and acting teacher, famous as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard (1979–1985); over 80 films and 600 TV shows.
James Bolam
James Bolam (born 16 June 1935, Sunderland) is an English actor known as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its 1973–74 sequel, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke trilogy, and Jack Halford in New Tricks (2003–2011).
James Bond III
James Bond III (born 1969) is an American actor, producer, director, and writer, a 1970s child actor on The Red Hand Gang who wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the 1990 horror film Def by Temptation.
James Booth
James Booth, born David Noel Geeves (1927 to 2005), was an English actor and screenwriter best known for Private Henry Hook in Zulu (1964) and Ernie Niles in Twin Peaks.
James Broderick
James Broderick (1927–1982), American actor, father on TV's Family and in Alice's Restaurant, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, and Dog Day Afternoon; father of Matthew Broderick.
James Brolin
James Brolin (born Craig Kenneth Bruderlin, 1940) is an American actor known for Marcus Welby, M.D., Hotel, Westworld, The Amityville Horror, Lightyear, and Ransom Canyon, husband of Barbra Streisand and father of actor Josh Brolin.
James Buckley (actor)
James Patrick Buckley (born 1987, Croydon) is an English actor known as Jay Cartwright in The Inbetweeners (2008-2010) and its films; also a prolific Cameo creator and Twitch, YouTube personality.
James Burrows
James Burrows (1940-2026), American television director and Cheers co-creator; directed over 1,000 sitcom episodes including all of Will & Grace, won 11 Emmys, pioneered four-camera sitcom directing.
James Caan
James Edmund Caan (1940–2022), American actor known as Jimmy Caan; Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (Oscar nomination), Brian's Song, Misery, Elf; Meisner-trained, Bronx-born, five-decade career with a 1982–1987 hiatus.
James Cagney
James Cagney (1899-1986), American actor and dancer, screen gangster of The Public Enemy (1931) and White Heat (1950), Oscar winner for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), independent producer with brother William.
James Callis
James Callis (born 1971, London) is an English actor known as Gaius Baltar in Battlestar Galactica, Tom in Bridget Jones, the voice of Alucard in Castlevania, and Claude Whelan in Slow Horses.
James Cameron
James Cameron (born 1954, Kapuskasing, Ontario) is a Canadian director of The Terminator, Aliens, Titanic, and Avatar, two of the three highest-grossing films ever, and a deep-sea explorer who descended 11 kilometers.
James Cameron filmography
James Cameron filmography: the directed, written, and produced films of Canadian director James Cameron (born 1954), from Piranha II (1982) and The Terminator through Titanic, Avatar, and Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), with dated sequels for 2029 and 2031.
James Carpinello
James Anthony Carpinello (born 1975, Albany, New York) is an American stage, film, and TV actor and producer: Tony Manero in Broadway's Saturday Night Fever, Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages, and lead producer of The Lost Boys musical; married to Amy Acker.
James Cartwright (actor)
James Lewis Cartwright (born 1984) is an English actor, son of playwright Jim Cartwright. Known as PC Harrison Burns in The Archers, Theo Silverton in Coronation Street, RTS Award winner for Johnny Shakespeare, and Fringe First winner for Raz.
James Coburn
James Coburn (1928-2002) was an American actor of about 70-80 films and 100+ TV appearances, known for The Magnificent Seven, Our Man Flint, and his 1999 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Affliction.
James Coco
James Coco (James Emil Coco, 1930-1987), American character actor and New York stage veteran; three Obies, Drama Desk for Next, 1983 Emmy for St. Elsewhere, and Oscar nomination for Only When I Laugh.